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Hi Devs

I guess since 4.3.3 the arguments passed to PHP (CLI) are handled differently. Here's an example:

test.php reads:
<?php print "text is ->".$text."<-\n" ?>

with php 4.3.2:
# php test.php "text=foobar"
->foobar<-

with php 4.3.3:
# php test.php "text=foobar"
-><-

The arguments are now found only in $argv. 

While this makes sense at first, some people use the PHP CLI to do subrequests. Let's assume you have two webservers, one delivering WWW and another one delivering WAP content.

The WAP server is doing a subrequest to the WWW server (using PHP CLI) and piping the output through a conversion script 'html2wml'. In order for this to work, the PHP CLI should hold an option to allow passing the arguments to $_POST or $_GET instead of $argv.

I don't see a way to do this as of now but by adding code to the page on the WWW server ? which is most clumsy as this code is not needed for pages delivered to a WWW user agent.

How about a command line argument like:

-x (--argv-to-request) xerox arguments to $_REQUEST

Many thanks for giving it a thought.